Modern Legacy
Adhara appears on the national flag of Brazil, symbolising the state of Tocantins.
Adhara also appears as a physical character in the 2007 animated film, Nocturna, as the main character Tim's favourite star.
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“The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)